Joe Conway writes:
> On a related note, are there any other bytea functions we should have in the
> backend before freezing for 7.2?
The SQL standards has a lot of functions for BLOB...
> I was thinking it would be nice to have a
> way to cast bytea into text and vice-versa, so that the normal text
> functions could be used for things like LIKE and concatenation.
Better write a native LIKE function for bytea, now that some parts are
threatening to make the text-LIKE function use the locale collating
sequence. (Multibyte aware text could also have interesting effects.)
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